>The the general law of capitalist accumulation is amassing of wealth at
>one pole and poverty at another pole. Wal-Mart is developing according
>to this general law. Concentration and centralization of capital
>results in the gobbling up of merchants in small towns. Death by
>drowning can be set at the door of the law of gravity, but that will not
>negate its operation.
This is all true, but what do you do with it? Just watch Wal-Mart take over the landscape and wait for the revolution? The damn thing goes to the heart of what America is all about - chewed up landscapes, shrouds of concrete, cars, sweatshop labor, phony Made In USA labels, low wages, and boosterism.
Doug